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Fourth Asian Test Symposium (ATS'95)
A STAFAN-like functional testability measure for register-level circuits
Bangalore, India
November 23-November 24
ISBN: 0-8186-7129-7
C.P. Ravikumar, Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Delhi, India
G.S. Saund, Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Delhi, India
N. Agrawal, Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Delhi, India
STAFAN (statistical fault analysis) is a well known testability analysis program which predicts the fault coverage of a digital circuit under the stuck-at fault model, without actually performing fault simulation. STAFAN offers speed advantage over other testability analysis programs such as SCOAP; further, it explicitly predicts the fault coverage for a given test set, unlike other testability measures which are harder to interpret. STAFAN works on gate-level digital circuits composed of basic logic gates. In this work, we show how a STAFAN-like testability analysis program can be constructed for circuits built out of register-level modules. With the proliferation of high-level synthesis and testability-driven synthesis, it is becoming more and more important to have fast testability analysis tools which operate on register-level components such as adders, multipliers, multiplexers, busses, and so on. Our testability analysis algorithm, which we call F-STAFAN, fills this void. We have implemented F-STAFAN on a Sun/SPARC workstation and describe its performance on several register-level circuits.
Index Terms:
shift registers; design for testability; circuit analysis computing; fault diagnosis; logic testing; statistical analysis; reliability theory; performance evaluation; functional testability measure; register-level circuits; fault coverage; digital circuit; stuck-at fault model; fault simulation; testability analysis programs; SCOAP; gate-level digital circuits; logic gates; high-level synthesis; testability-driven synthesis; adders; multipliers; multiplexers; busses; F-STAFAN; Sun/SPARC workstation
Citation:
C.P. Ravikumar, G.S. Saund, N. Agrawal, "A STAFAN-like functional testability measure for register-level circuits," ats, pp.192, Fourth Asian Test Symposium (ATS'95), 1995
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